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Black Mountain Elementary School Waste Reduction Data Black Mountain Elementary School is recycling paper and plastic and reducing the amount of solid waste sent to the local landfill. The fifth grade came up with a plan to recycle paper and plastic and to collect data on how we are doing. Many students and teachers believed that paper and plastic in the classroom might be just a small part of the solid waste produced on campus. They pointed out that the lunch room might be a place that could also benefit from recycling. Mrs. Kappel's and Mrs. Severance's classes took on the challenge of performing a waste audit on two days in the lunch room. They are developing ideas on how we might reduce the amount of waste produced in five categories—paper, plastic, styrafoam, food, and other. Explore the data collected by Mrs. Kappel's class presented below in bar graphs and think about how you might reduce the solid waste in one or more of the categories measured. |
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